Persoonia. | CIV. PROTEACEJE. 385 
below the anther. Anthers all perfect, the connective produced into an 
obtuse appendage. Ovary broad, scarcely contracted at the base, taper- 
ing into a cylindrical style, hooked at the end under the upper anthers. 
Ovules 2. Young fruit obliquely ovoid-globular. 
W. Australia, Drummond, 5th coll. suppl. n. 4. 
9. P. comata, JMeissn. in Hook. Kem Journ. vii. 71, and in DC. Prod. 
xiv. 330. A low shrub with erect branches softly pubescent as well as 
the young shoots, the adult foliage glabrous. Leaves linear-cuneate or 
oblanceolate, 14 to 3 in. long, obtuse with a small point, contracted 
— Short thick stipes, thickened upwards and incurved, with an oblique 
stigma buried in the cavity of the upper perianth-segment. Ovules 2. 
y glabrous, con- 
tracted into a short thick stipes, tapering into a short thick quein 
vules 2. 
l 
and very oblique. — Pedicels slender, 1 to 4 in. long, glabrous as well as 
i : * mes 
i erianth or very minutely hoary-pubescent, someti axillary, 
. but more frequently forming a long raceme with the lower floral leaves 
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